Author's first name missing from Chicago styles
In RC3, the Chicago styles appeared correctly both when exporting a bibliography and when inserting a citation into MS Word. In RC 4, none of the Chicago styles outputs the author's first name. I checked my Zotero items to make sure that the first-name fields have data, and they do.
Has the style been updated so that the first name was accidentally left out? Can the style be corrected?
Thanks for the great program. I'm looking forward to using it's latest version.
Has the style been updated so that the first name was accidentally left out? Can the style be corrected?
Thanks for the great program. I'm looking forward to using it's latest version.
Also, I am completely new to Zotero - does it download the upgrades automatically or notify me of available updates?
The install link lets you download the file. But then what do you do? It's a script of some sort, right?
Alright, I'll wait for 1.0.2.
Just over a month ago the CMS 17th edition update was released, so at first I thought it was probably an error in the update. However, I've since tried using alternative versions (Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition, Taylor & Francis - Chicago Manual of Style, Feminist Economics, etc.) and none of them are behaving as they should in this regard. I'm using the MS Word plugin, and I've tried updating Zotero standalone and re-installing the Word plugin, but still no success. I can confirm that the entries are not missing first names in Zotero, and I'm now out of ideas.
Any suggestions on where the problem might be or how to address it would be much appreciated!
However, the References section of Style Guidelines provided on the Feminist Economics homepage (http://www.feministeconomics.org/pages/author-instructions/style-guidelines/) explains that:
"On the first citation of a work, the first name as well as the last name of all authors cited must be given. Thereafter, the last name only with the date of publication will suffice. Only use et al. in succeeding mentions of sources with four or more authors."
A quick look at some of their articles confirms that the first instance an author is mentioned in in-text references, that author's first and last names are included. I understood that this was general Chicago author-date policy, but clearly I am mistaken, so the issue appears to be with the the Feminist Economics CSL specifically.
Thanks again!
We'll take a look, but might not be quick.
cc @damnation
Can you test this one out? Right click and save and usually Zotero knows what to do with the file: https://github.com/POBrien333/styles/raw/d15f7ec7d80448a535333ddfd6202d00821aa7af/feminist-economics.csl
Made this quite quickly, so let me know what needs fixing. :)